Supporting People - Local Performance

Local Government Reform

The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill is currently progressing through Parliament incorporating the proposals made in the White Paper: Strong and Prosperous Communities. The latter was published at the end of 2006 outlining the government's plans to devolve power to local authorities and create stronger links between local councils and the people they serve.

Local Area Agreements

New style local Area Agreements, which came into force from June 2008, are now 'all-encompassing' agreements that will form the central delivery mechanism between local authorities, their partners and central government. The new LAAs, running from 2008 - 11 will be extended from current arrangements to cover a wider range of services.

National Indicators

The way that government monitors the success of the LAAs is through the submission of national indicators. In 2007/8 the historical 300 indicators were reduced to 198 with a core 35 that authorities could select to report to government directly. The two Supporting People indicators, NI 141 and NI 142 were not selected for the core 35 and so local targets have been set for these by the Supporting People Commissioning Body.

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Appendix 1 of the NEW Supporting People Strategy 2009/11, which demonstrates how local Supporting People services can help deliver the Local Authorities core 35 national indicators

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